Well for purposes of this post I am going to be using the acronym SWIM (someone who isn't me) a lot so just clarifying that beforehand:
We have a massive party culture here in South Africa, and there's been some WEIRD shit going around. Seeing as this is an 'MDMA' oriented thread I'll put them all out there:
Firstly, the MDMA used to really be pretty good. It all came over from the UK, then got cleaned up nice by one guy, an oldschool chemist that doesn't even eat any, he just loves 'playing lego on an atomic level' as he loved to say. Now that was our one prize source... Now there's strange cats running around with strange stuff...
SWIM got a few grams as a sample, now this was WRONG man, sticky and brown-ish. I'm used to snorting it, was impossible with this stuff. Effect was not cool, it has all the MDMA 'drive' but none of the sunshine. Also had that 'shrivelling' effect dex used to have, going for a piss it was like my knob had fallen off. And comes in bloody cheap, too cheap for good clean mandy.
SWIM got another sample from another source, even weirder, crystals yes but a 7g piece was clearly the corner off some big 'block' it looked veiny and crystals broke off along the veins. Also, ample drive, no SUNSHINE. And holy balls did it burn. Mum and Dad usually make bit of a noise going up the stairs, but not like this, it was proper eye-watering BURN.
Good clean MDMA does burn but in an nice way, not savage like that stuff.
Haven't touched either since.
Then there's this stuff they're calling 'BKMDMA' but a much more trusted source identified it as a research chemical named MDMC. Gorgeous crystals, apparently tests incredibly pure, quasi-legal... But nobody can tell me a single risk for this stuff.
People are running around getting bent on this stuff (it's DIRT) cheap without even knowing a single risk. My how the party world has changed. Makes me feel old.
and the one that freaks me out the most. SWIM recently got a gram of LSD from his usual trusted source. There's something WRONG with this stuff too.
Acid, it's colourless, it's odourless. Countless grams have gone through SWIM's very capable hands. As usual one quarter got mixed into concentrate which then got mixed into sour candy dropper bottles, mix was as usual distilled water and pure alcohol. All went swell to this point, bottles at 120 mics felt like 100 mics, though... And then it went brown. Bottles were now STRONGER, more like what SWIM would expect from 120mics. The rest of the crystal was still normal, but each batch changed colour after mixing up, and the crystal itself was going darker, getting a browney-ness to it. And later it was noticed that the dosage-curve seems to be a lot steeper than usual, 100 mics felt strong, 300 not as strong as you'd expect, 500 was a case of WTF did we dose that right?...
It's not acid. SWIM'd love to know WHAT it is, but there is no longer a good chemist in the family that he can take a sample to. So now we don't even know what we know anymore.
Thank god for reefer.